especially in the bay area, one can listen to engineers who worked in the valley and at places like SRI during its early days.
for me, it all spawned off that interview question about what happens when you press a key? i got to the part where wifi kicked in and I realized just how abstracted my knowledge of radio propagation was.
I've recently become interested in radio, despite having no background in any form of engineering or any other STEM discipline. I crammed for my Technical, but am slowing down to try to actually learn the field well before taking my General. It's fascinating, but the learning curve for me is sharp. It reminds me of when I dove face-first into GNU/Linux and Emacs in my twenties. That was a thrill, but I had a lot more time to dedicate to it. I suppose in my life I keep being drawn to these vertiginous technical challenges that don't become fun until you absorb a fair amount of knowledge: audio production, Unix, Emacs, roguelikes, SuperCollider, Chess, Go. Guess I like a challenge :)
especially in the bay area, one can listen to engineers who worked in the valley and at places like SRI during its early days.
for me, it all spawned off that interview question about what happens when you press a key? i got to the part where wifi kicked in and I realized just how abstracted my knowledge of radio propagation was.